Lola at the Coffee House

@ossobuco,

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I'll add the list if it would amuse.

Surely osso, that would be putting you to too much trouble? I have a lot of old records and even more tapes and if you begged me I wouldn't go and root them out and list them all to amuse anybody.

Tell us how best to make bread and butter pudding instead.

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@spendius,

This sure is one vacuous thread.

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@spendius,

In terms of poetry and the joy of language Dylan doesn't hold a candle to Ian Dury.

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Good evening i'm from Essex
in case you couldn't tell
my given name is Dickie, I come from Billericay
and I'm doing very well

had a love affair with Nina
in the back of my Cortina
a seasoned up hyena could not have been more obscener
she took me to the cleaners
and other misdemeanours
but I got right up between her
rum and her Ribena

well, you ask Joyce and Vicki
if candy-floss is sticky
I'm not a blinking thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
and i'm doing very well

I bought a lot of brandy
when I was courting Sandy
took eight to make her randy
and all I had was shandy
another thing with Sandy
what often came in handy
was passing her a 'Mandy'
she didn't half go bandy

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
if I ever took the mickey
I'm not a flipping thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
and I'm doing very well

I'd rendezvous with Janet
quite near the Isle of Thanet
she looked more like a gannet
she wasn't half a prannet
her mother tried to ban it
her father helped me plan it
and when I captured Janet she bruised her pomegranet

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
if i ever shaped up tricky
I'm not a blooming thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
and I'm doing very well

you should never hold a candle if you don't know where it's been
the jackpot is in the handle on a normal fruit machine

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
who's their favourite brickie
I'm not a common thicky
I'm Billericay Dickie
and I'm doing very well

I know a lovely old toe-rag obliging and noblesse
kindly, charming shag from Shoeburyness

my given name is Dickie
I come from Billericay
I thought you'd never guess

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
a pair of squeaky chickies
I'm not a flaming thicky I'm Billericay Dickie
and I'm doing very well

oh golly, oh gosh come and lie on the couch
with a nice bit of posh from Burnham-on-Crouch

my given name is Dickie, I come from Billericay
and I ain't a sloutch

so you ask Joyce and Vicki
about Billericay Dickie
I ain't an effin' thicky
you ask Joyce and Vicki
and I'm doing very well

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@spendius,

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I have a lot of old records and even more tapes and if you begged me I wouldn't go and root them out and list them all to amuse anybody.

Dylan, Dylan and more Dylan, no doubt! With a bit of Leonard Cohen thrown in for good measure. Don't worry, Spendius, I don't think we're missing much by not hearing them. Osso's collection of music is bound to be much more varied - I for one would welcome seeing what records and tapes she listens to, and I'm sure I'm not the only one!

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@Lola,

As a person who worked in housing tract design for several years, it's one of my favorite songs. But I'd heard it before all that. It gave the daily grind a backdrop of irony.

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@vonny,

Hmm. I killed two Leonard Cohen albums from overplay (the same album, I think it was Songs - the record was blue). So they're not on the list.
Neither is a Mongo Santamaria album - what did I do with that? Dylan's gone. Kristofferson's gone. Well, many are gone, will have to think re what I tossed deaccessed.

I saved few tapes, very few. CDs are probably more interesting as a swath, some future list. By then I was interested in opera, instead of running away screaming at the sound of it.

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@ossobuco,

Do you know Basketball Jones by Cheech & Chong? My husband says it's a good one!

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@vonny,

Nope..

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@ossobuco,

I must admit that I like Leonard Cohen - but in small doses! Too much of any artist bores me - grasshopper mentality I'm afraid.

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@firefly,

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All cookie-cutter little houses.

What could possibly be a better match for that good ole cookie cutter mentality, right, FF?

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I was at Newport in 1963.
I had gotten a six string Stella for Xmas and my fingers were bloody from practicing.
I was at Newport in 1964.
My friends and I tried to find really great folksongs about unions, mines, lost loves and sailing ships. We had great times.
In July 1965, having learned 100 songs from Sing Out, I was hitchhiking around New England playing my 12-string and begging for places to sleep before heading to Boston to go to school.
I think it was in Boston that I first heard the story of how Dylan had played an electric set at Newport and pissed Pete Seeger off.

I didn't listen to another new Dylan song for about forty years.

Somebody made me listen to "Hurricane".

Yup, he's a genius for storytelling and lyrics, but he's still not kind of folksinger.

Joe(I'll have a short one, Scotch, neat)Nation

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@vonny,

Me too. That's part of why I stopped popular music nearly cold, somewhere in the early to mid seventies, and only listed to KCRW, which played much more varied music from all over the place.. or the few interesting stations that survived the clear channel challenge; kppc comes to mind. All the good stations were disappearing and as I twirled the dial I kept hearing The Eagles. Should I end up in Hell, The Eagles will be the elevator music.

When I got up to Humboldt County in 1999, there were still stations of the old sort, sort of, that I liked, KHUM, and KMUD. One of those put out helicopter warnings..
plus I liked the NPR station well enough and a friend was the jazz dj.

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@Joe Nation,

See what I mean about that good ole cookie cutter mentality, FF.

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@JTT,

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This sure is one vacuous thread.

If you define vacuity in such a way that the contents herein are embraced by it then it is quite understandable that you believe the thread vacuous. It goes without saying really.

If others have a different definition of vacuity, which would likely embrace posting on a thread to say it is vacuous, they will have their reasons for doing so just as you have your reasons for your definition.

This is an eclectic Coffee-House. We have a sheep shearer and a curmudgeon. We have a Southampton Football Club supporter whose literary tastes can be seen above. We have froward ladies, eating ladies, spending ladies, dolled-up ladies, dancing ladies, dangerous ladies and modest ladies, and probably other things as well. We had a ship's captain once. We have the most fragrant and refined proprietoress this side of Alpha Centauri and Washup who serves as gopher.

What are you looking for?

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@Joe Nation,

is a bit overused for someone like mr Dillon.
Kristoffersons poetry and Stand Rogers and seeveral others even Warren Zevon can out do his imagery.
When it come to real honest to goodness genius there is only Ray Charles and Irving Berlin, sometimes Jim Croce got close but he was in the mix with Dylan and the clever word crafters.

Dylan could not sing for ****, he always sopunded like he ws getting nasal polyps removed.

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@ossobuco,

There are elevators in Hell? That I didn't know.

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@spendius,

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What are you looking for?

More in the way of vacuous, Spendi.

And the sheep shearer didn't disappoint.

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@vonny,

No Leonard Cohen vonny.

osso said that she doesn't listen to them herself and that some of them she never has.

It is better if osso remains a bit of a mystery imo.

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@realjohnboy,

Yes, but they only go down..

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